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Use of the Internet in Venezuela has greatly expanded, but is mostly concentrated among younger, educated city residents, and centered on the capital, Caracas.The Venezuelan economic crisis caused a prolonged period where Venezuelan had among the lowest speeds in the region, which has been drastically improving starting in 2022. [1]
The Local Committees for Supply and Production (Spanish: Comité Local de Abastecimiento y Producción, CLAP) are food distribution committees promoted by the Venezuelan government in which the communities themselves supply and distribute the priority foods through a house-to-house delivery method.
Central Bank of Venezuela: Central bank [1] Caracas [2] 1939 [3] Banco Bicentenario: State-owned Caracas: 2009 Banco Industrial de Venezuela: State-owned Caracas: 1937 2016 Banco de Venezuela: Privately owned Caracas: 1890 Banesco: Publicly traded Caracas: 1992 [4] Mercantil Banco: Privately owned Caracas: 1925 BBVA Provincial: Publicly traded ...
CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday unanimously voted to approve a law which could lead to bans on holding public office of up to 60 years for those who express support ...
The recovery of oil prices in the early 2000s gave Venezuela oil funds not seen since the 1980s. [2] A destabilized economy led to a crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, resulting in hyperinflation, an economic depression, shortages of basic goods and drastic increases in poverty, disease, child mortality, malnutrition, and crime. [3] [4]
The U.S. government on Thursday designated the violent Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua as a “transnational criminal organization,” a move that should aid U.S. law enforcement agencies ...
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 28 July 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. [1] [2] President Nicolás Maduro ran for a third consecutive term, while former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia represented the Unitary Platform (Spanish: Plataforma Unitaria Democrática; PUD), the main opposition political alliance.
Luis Herrera Campins. When Luis Herrera Campins became President in 1979, he received a "mortgaged Venezuela". [1] Viernes Negro in Venezuela was preceded by events such as the departure of Venezuela from the gold standard, the nationalization of oil, and the beginning of a stage of decreasing public spending compared with State revenue.